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diameter. The fruit ripens in the spring, contains several large 
seeds surrounded by juicy and refreshing sub-acid flesh ranging 
in colour from white to yellow. From the base of the branching 
spurs which carry the fruit bunches spring fresh growths which in 
turn will blossom and earry fruit. When these become too 
crowded they should be thinned out. Art and selection have of 
late brought forward some choicer varieties, which are rapidly 
becoming popular. The range of the Loquat is pretty well that 
of the orange. Propagated from seed, cuttings root easily. The 
seedlings must be grafted or budded. Does best on a moist sandy 
loam with clay subsoil, where they bear heavily. Deciduous; forms 
a dense and compact head of a rounded and symmetrical shape; 
requires trimming to remove crowded branches. The Loquat 
makes excellent jelly and for that purpose inferior fruit, even if 
not fully ripe, could not be better used. It takes about five years 
to mature a tree from seed; budded trees bear in two years. 
Herv’s Mamoru, E.—Matures in October. Fruit large; few 
seeds. Dark leaves. 
Victory, M.—Ripens beginning of October and beginning of 
November. Fruit large, egg-shaped; yellow-tinted amber on side 
exposed to the sun; flesh juicy, sugary, and pleasant in flavour. 
Leaves light green. Smaller than Herd’s Mammoth. 
GLENoRIE SuPERB, a New South Wales seedling now propagated 
by Mr. J. Hawter, of tlie Blackwood Nurseries. Fruit large, round, 
of a deep apricot colour, mostly single stone, flesh excellent, juicy 
and firm. 
STONE FRUITS. 
These comprise such fruit as apricots, cherries, peaches, nec- 
tarines, plums. 
SeLecr ApRicors (Prunus Armeniaca). 
' These trees are best worked on apricot root in the warmer and 
drier districts, as it stands drought fairly well, and is, in moister 
Jocalities, apt to grow too vigorously. Plum stock stands wet 
better than the apricot root, has a more dwarfing tendency, and 
grows fine fruit, but suckers when cultivated too deeply; the union 
is sometimes imperfect, and it often produces gumming and the 
die-back diseases. Peach roots do better on lighter soil, and is 
generally a good stock to work apricots upon. An ideal apricot 
district 1s one which is neither too hot nor too cold, neither too dry 
nor too wet, but one enjeving just a happy mean. Air drainage 
